Ex-NRL player Jarryd Hayne allegedly cleaned blood from his hands and mouth before leaving the home of a woman he sexually assaulted, a court has heard. 9News
The former Eels fullback is accused of forcibly performing sex acts on a woman in her NSW Hunter home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.
The 35-year-old's third trial on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent began in the NSW District Court on Monday."Not guilty," Hayne said when the charges were read out.The case has drawn attention due to Hayne's high-profile as a former NRL star. "You'll find out if you don't already know," Judge Graham Turnbull SC told prospective jurors on Monday morning."Concentrate on the evidence in this trial … this trial alone," he said.
The jury of 14, seven men and seven women, will be whittled to 12 prior to a verdict being delivered.`He told jurors they would hear Hayne and the woman he's accused of assaulting had never met before, having communicated through social media. Hayne was in town for a bucks' weekend when he took a taxi to the woman's home in suburban Newcastle.The alleged assault involving oral and digital sex lasted about 30 seconds, ending when the woman's genitals began to bleed, Mr Sfinas said.
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